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Yalejoi tái
Definition
A carrier or medium; something that carries, holds, or expresses another thing.
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How it's used
Primarily used in formal, academic, or professional contexts to describe abstract concepts like culture, information, or memory being stored within a physical or digital medium. It carries a sense of intellectual weight and is rarely used in casual, everyday conversation about physical objects. When discussing a simple container for physical items, words like 容器 are far more natural.
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This book is an important carrier of knowledge.
Do you think the internet is a carrier of information?
Related words
Common mistake
Learners often mistakenly use this word to describe a physical container or a vehicle, but it is strictly reserved for abstract or conceptual 'carriers' of information or culture.
Grammar color guide
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Classifier
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Grammar guides
- In 30 secondsThe whole language at a glance. No tenses, no plurals, six tones, sentence particles. Read this before you dive into any specific topic.
- ParticlesSentence particles add tone, emotion, and nuance. Learn the most common particles in Cantonese and how to use them.
- Possession (嘅)How to say my, your, and his, and how to link a describing word to a noun, all with the little word 嘅 (ge3).
